Mary Lou Jepsen surely deserves to be called a technology pioneer. Most recently, she was an engineering executive at Facebook working on its Oculus virtual reality gear; before that she spent three years at Google X, running moonshot projects on display technology, and founded four startups, ...

There are a lot of super successful tech companies in Germany – one of them is Auto1 who recently raised $558 million from SoftBank to expand internationally. Marc Samwer (Global Founders Capital) welcomed Auto1 co-founder Christopher Muhr and Zalando CEO Robert Gentz on stage at DLD Munich 18. ...

Ping-pong session at DLD Munich 18: Author and MIT scientist Andrew McAfee and Openwater founder Mary Lou Jepsen ask each other questions. Mary Lou Jepsen is an expert on cutting-edge digital displays and explains: “You can watch people’s thoughts on a screen.&quot; Openwater has the goal to see ...

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At DLD Campus Lecture, Marc Samwer, CEO of Global Founders Capital, talked to Stefan Winners, board member national digital brands at Hubert Burda Media, about the stellar ascent of the Samwer brothers, what it means to be an entrepreneur, and what decision he has regretted most up to ...

Is authenticity still an issue? Scanning through book shops and finding titles like „How to be yourself“ answer that question quite clearly. With these words Herminia Ibarra (London Business School) opens her DLD18 talk about the question „Is authenticity overrated?“ Unfortunately, her panel ...

War, protests against regimes, mass migration, environmental disasters – Can architecture help bridging differences in a more and more divided world? Architect Francis Kéré proves that it can help bringing people together.
Francis Kéré has a clear vision: &quot;As an architect you have the ...

Can the right song get you’re ad campaign to take off? Can music accelerate your business and what would you have to do in order to make it happen? These were questions Lars Bendix Düysen (Sony Music Entertainment), Nicole Lassak (Jägermeister), Sham (Kaiser Franz Josef) and Ralph Simon ...

No wonder Christiana Figueres is called the “climate saver”. From 2010 to 2016 she was Secretary General of the UN Climate Change Secretariat. Figueres has made a decisive contribution to the adoption of the Paris Climate Agreement, in which the member states of the United Nations have ...

From autonomous flying to hyperloops – how will the future of mobility look like? Discussing innovative transport concepts, the sharing economy as well as new possibilities and responsibilities regarding data-driven mobility services, Wired&#39;s Greg Williams hosted a panel with Dirk Hoke ...

“I am so fed up with people migrating to the wild west of the Silicon Valley and then coming back to say Europe sucks. It’s not true!”, says <b>René Obermann</b>. Europe has the opportunity to become the next powerhouse – if you know how.

Dara Khosrowshahi made a political fashion-statement on stage at DLD Munich 18: The new Uber CEO wore a protest-slogan T-Shirt “We are all dreamers” – an immigrant himself Khosrowshahi wants to support the Dream Act, which provides a citizenship path and support for undocumented immigrant ...

Making her debut on the DLD stage, the European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society Mariya Gabriel spoke about the legislation for a European single digital market and her plans to upgrade cyber security in Europe at DLD18.
The digital single market becomes reality. Until the end of ...

The lack of trust is a central issue of our time. Without trust, institutions don’t work and people lose faith in their leaders. What should we do to rebuild trust? David Kirkpatrick (Techonomy) discussed this topic with Alexander Birken (Otto Group) and Andrew McAfee (MIT).
Otto Group CEO ...

When it comes to Start-up-cities and -nations one doesn’t think of Belgrade and Serbia. Too recent is the memory of war and destruction. But the country seems to have balanced itself and is climbing the stony path to innovation.

A cherished DLD tradition and one of the most anticipated lectures every year at the conference is Scott Galloway&#39;s morning keynote covering the latest numbers &amp; benchmarks, winners &amp; losers and predictions of the most important developments in the digital market – delivered in 150 ...

Four powerful women on the stage at DLD Munich 18: Kara Swisher (ReCode) moderated a passionate and intelligent debate between Miriam Meckel (Wirtschaftswoche), Hilary Rosen (CNN) and journalist Megan Murphy. One year ago, they also discussed the United States presidential election and social ...

Localising forest fires, estimating biomass or carbon storage – analysing the quality of habitants for certain animal species. All that is possible thanks to remote sensing and essential for organisations like the World Wide Fund of Nature. What is already possible and where will technology lead ...

As the innovation of technology shows no sign of slowing down, all entrepreneurs must think about what keeps them competitive. Florian Leibert (Mesosphere) hosted the DLD panel about engineering leadership in the Silicon Valley. Together with Guido Appenzeller (VMWare), Larry Gadea (Envoy) and ...

One important part of DLD&#39;S DNA are the life sciences. Breaking it down to the essentials, Petra Schwille, Director of Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, works on defining what life actually means: What is the difference between living and non-living entities? She is joined by Dimitar ...

Celmatix, Elvie, Clue, Prelude Fertility – Women’s health tech companies are up and coming. But still, in a men dominated tech- and investment-world, the struggle is real. Ina Fried, chief technology correspondent for Axios, took the chance at DLD 2018 to open the discussion about the technology ...

How will old cities change and new cities be designed at the brink of a new age of smart cities? To Francesca Bria smart cities aren’t about companies providing technologies to cities to make them more efficient, they must also mean more participatory democracy and transparency of a ...